In an event at a produce packaging facility in North Carolina yesterday, President Trump announced another $1 billion for the Food Box distribution program. This would be the fourth round of the program originally authorized by the CARES Act. The legislation provided $3 billion for distributors to contract to supply feeding programs and food banks with boxes of produce, cooked meat, and dairy products.
To date, 71.7 million boxes have been distributed. Counting the dairy boxes and the dairy portion of the “combo boxes”, about 25 percent or more of the funding has gone to dairy. If that pace continues (it likely will because a high percent of current contracts will be extended) that will total $1 billion on dairy purchases ove...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain areas of Africa (and historically, Arabia) and is the largest living species of bird. The common ostrich is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus St...
A pika (/ˈpaɪkə, ˈpiːkə/ PY-kə, PEE-kə[3][4]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears.[5] The large-eared pi...
Lobelia (/loʊˈbiːliə, lə-/[4][5][6]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species,[7] with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.[8] They are known g...
